Comments on: Evolution: There is no missing link

By: Nopke

Nopke — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:45:42 +0000

Ofcourse there is a missing link … that was not missing … humans just did not want to be linked to monkeys … that’s all.

It’s a bit how you want to see missing link I guess … I don’t see a chain .. there can be many links/steps in the theory missing, many more than one.

The origin seems clear though .. plain energy. The way energy works (electricity etc), that’s how humans still work … small .. big ..

Now then … any good mortgage deals overthere? Banks are criminal bastards. Too bad they did not need intelligence to work it. It leaves intelligent people a bit depressed. I dont feel like going primal … and wont need to, thank god. Nonetheless .. annoying. The system behind the screens is too dumb for words … they dont get it theirselves .. that’s the annoying thing.

By: unmevsworld

unmevsworld — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:51:06 +0000

At Ben’s link in comment 2 there was an add for this week’s New Scientist. The cover says, “How Beliefs Can Harm You.”

By: wedgehog

wedgehog — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:42:54 +0000

The tree concept could become biology’s equivalent of Newtonian mechanics: revolutionary and hugely successful in its time, but ultimately too simplistic to deal with the messy real world.

By: John

John — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:40:35 +0000

A few years ago a piece of snake DNA was found in cows. The most likely agents of this genetic shuffling are viruses, which constantly cut and paste DNA from one genome into another, often across great taxonomic distances. In fact, by some reckonings, 40 to 50 per cent of the human genome consists of DNA imported horizontally by viruses, some of which has taken on vital biological functions (New Scientist, 27 August 2008, p 38).

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:38:39 +0000

Hybrid humans:

Some researchers are also convinced that hybridisation has been a major driving force in animal evolution (see “Natural born chimeras”, and “Two into one”), and that the process is ongoing. “It is really common,” says James Mallet, an evolutionary biologist at University College London. “Ten per cent of all animals regularly hybridise with other species.” This is especially true in rapidly evolving lineages with lots of recently diverged species – including our own. There is evidence that early modern humans hybridised with our extinct relatives, such as Homo erectus and the Neanderthals (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, vol 363, p 2813).

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:37:07 +0000

Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life - New Scientist

By: Tash

Tash — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:47:51 +0000

‘you are the weakest link, goodbye!’ – sorry i couldn’t resist that. Yeah look at the varied shapes and forms of all humans now, why can’t they accept there is no missing link.